Rob Hallock
(aka Thrax)
Rob Hallock is a frequent contributor to Icrontic and veteran member. In his spare time he enjoys PC gaming, being a human RSS aggregator, and finding extra megahertz (much like change in the bottom of a couch). While some say "Divide and conquer," he thinks 1:1 is a better tactic.
Articles by Rob Hallock
- The $600 US stimulus check PC
- Solve Wireless Lag and Disconnects on XP
- Slipstreaming Windows XP
- First look at a retail OCZ Cryo-Z
- Make a USB flash drive bootable
- The Core 2's FSB, RAM and Bandwidth Explained
- Repair and Fresh Install of Windows XP
- How to Burn an ISO (for Free)
- Removing Trojan.Zlob in all its forms
- Windows Password Recovery
- Fixing Winsock
- Beware of Spylocked (Smitfraud in disguise)
- Hard drive testing guide
- How Hard Drives Work
- Advanced Data Recovery
- Why Windows Vista isn't ready for geeks
- Transfer CD music to your MP3 player
- Quickest Guide to Wireless Security (Ever)
- Quad Core Processing: Over-simplified, demystified, and explained
- AMD Athlon Processor Comparison Guide
Recent news reports
Hardware Ticker
- 3dGameMan video reviews the SilverStone Nightjar 450W Zero dBA fanless PSU. It's silent with solid caps. pg-7/04
- Today's endless flood of video card reviews: Sapphire HD 4850, PowerColor HD 4850, and PNY GeForce GTX 260. pg-7/04
- OCZ's Flex-II series comes ready for water cooling out of the box. TweakTown tests their Flex-II PC2-9200 kit. pg-7/04
- A custom Crysis config can improve visual quality and game performance. pg-7/04
- Crucial Ballistix PC3-16000 is seizure-inducing fast. pg-7/04
- NV PhysX Tweaker 1.0 allows you to enable or disable GeForce PhysX and switch to CPU PhysX. pg-7/03
- Guru3D pairs non-matching Radeon HD-series cards in CrossfireX to see what happens. pg-7/03
- Phoronix tests the HD 4870 in Linux. pg-7/03
Latest News
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- NVIDIA chops GPU prices
- MacBook Air upgrade price cuts
- NVIDIA suffers poor QC, stock tanks
- Viacom to get YouTube viewership data
- [BREAKING:] Job Search Ends for Local Icrontian!
- Overclock a Mac Pro
- Security key coming to WoW
- PS3 firmware bricks systems
- Free software!
- Intel lays out future plans
- How to get those impossible screws into motherboards
- more news


